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Samoa Jose Nuñez 10C World Geography Short Intro Samoa are two islands located in the pacific ocean, about half way or in the middle of Hawaii and New Zealand: and It belongs to the continent Oceania.media type="custom" key="21373776" align="left"Samoa has also an area of 2,831 km² both islands.

Background New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the firs t Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.([])

Samoa Statistics Population: 194,320 (July 2012 est.) Samoa has low population because it is an island in the Pacific and is not very developed.

Birth Rate: 22.1 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

Death Rate: 5.34 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.)

Net Migration Rate: 10.81 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2012 est.)

Infant Mortality Rate: 21.85 deaths/1,000 live births

Population Growth Rate: 0.596% (2012 est.)

Life Expectancy: 72.66 years

Doubling Time: 117.4497 years

Samoa General Knowledge and Conditions Samoa are some islands in the pacific ocean, and has a parliament democracy type government. Its lifestyle is based on agriculture, fishing, manufacturing and aid development. It has considerable turists( 120,000 in 2007) but Samoa is considered one of the least developed countries in the world putting it at the same status as african country. Its life expectancy may not be very high for that same reason. The country may be concentraded on aid development, but lots of people don't have access to education and health care. Samoa because is a country in development has much more young people than old people but with time that will change and be more equal the number of youth to old. Its doubling time is 117 and a half years, thats is a long time and even if the population doubled it wouldn't pass the 500,000 people. Samoa has a a very high doubling time and a very little population, this shows that there is lack of development.

Samoa is in stage 2 to 3 and its an expanding type country. It also is a LEDC (Less Economically Developed Country) becasue it is considered one of the 50 less developed countries and its an island in the pacific.

Samoa has some population issues, death rates are high, do to undeveloped conditions and poverty People aren't living to long and are not reproducing fast, this leads to a large doubling time. It is also very exposed to natural disasters like tsunamis, earthquakes, heavy storms and hurricanes.

References > http://www.spbdmicrofinance.com/spbd-network/samoa > http://populationpyramid.net/ > > Picture Gallery Natural Disasters: Tsunamis Hurricanes:
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ws.html

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